Hose Be Brainwashing

It was not until I had a tablet that could do everything that I realized I wanted a tablet that could do less.

It was not until I had the devotional relationship of my dreams that I realized it was not a whole life.

I've noticed that the mothers in my life who are flush with resources barely lean on them, sometimes spend more hours or do more demanding things with their children, in a happier mood, than mothers who have experienced that their resources are scarce.

What true prosperity and abundance provides is tracking to what is required, opt-in to exactly what that is, without calling it little or much.

When I can always grab more, I simply take exactly what I need and it feels like enough. When I can't always grab what I need, I fear that having exactly enough is too little, because there's not enough to save for next time I'll need this resource when I CAN'T just grab more.

From a baseline of nourishment, we are in concerns of distribution, and this is the energetic signature of wealth.

From a baseline of scarcity, we are in concerns of acquisition, and this is the energetic signature of poverty.

I went from poverty to wealth consciousness by brainwashing myself intentionally. I saw I had been brainwashed in the first place, and I found more natural cleaning products to give my brain a nice once-over. I updated all my beliefs, at first in what seemed to be direct defiance to reality.

I wish I could tell you that I did this brainwashing without a change in resources, but doing it so immediately increased my resources that I can't even say that's true. I believed into something in a way that made it so, such that I didn't have to delude myself for long before those delusions were reality.

All that to say, the resources FOLLOW your transition from poverty to wealth. The resources do not empower your transition from poverty to wealth, because a pure infusion of resources simply creates a larger fractal of the same poverty consciousness. This is what happens with the nouveau riche and lotto winners who go broke—this is the difference between riches and wealth.

Here's how I brainwashed myself, in defiance of all "reality" I was taught to believe in—

I took the zen understanding of needs all the way into my heart. It's radical, it's savage, it's extreme.

It goes a little something like this: In this moment, I am awake and alive. I do not have needs, because if I had a real need, I would be dead for the lack of it. It is the NEXT moment, somewhere other than here and now (where all of reality actually is) where need is a question, where need might strike. One moment from my death of starvation, I do not need food. I need food for the next moment. When the next moment arrives, I am dead. And dead people don't need anything either.

In this moment, I always have just-cause to believe I am in prosperity. Some nice thought exercises might be to imagine you had to explain to someone less materially fortunate than you how many problems you have and how exactly your resources represent a crisis. Or to imagine waking up tomorrow with only what you acknowledge consciously as a resource right now. (Don't forget gravity!)

In any moment, I can be in wealth consciousness, because I always have at least one resource I might concern myself with distributing. My constant resources are time, energy, and attention. The moment is the time. I can distribute my presence. My energy is here, I can radiate the tone of love. My attention is on something, it could in any given moment be on appreciation.

I concern myself with distribution the way a hose sprays water. No matter where it is pointed, spraying water on *something* is the only time the hose gets to be everfull of rushing water.

The more I'm distributing my time, energy, and attention for the sake of being in loving distribution, the more I tune to what feels truly compelling, what generates and returns energy for energy, where it feels delightful to love, and my love is well-received.

Giving love, then, IS my filter. I go where it's easy and it makes good sense. I go where it makes dollars too. I go where giving love means being full of it on the inside as well as showered with it on the outside. I give love in ways that change interactions, cutting off enmity before it can form, before it can do damage, alchemizing fear and suspicion with love and integrity.

I give love like reading a choose-your-own-adventure, and choosing the most loving response for every page makes every book a love story.